Christopher Achen will present the annual Hibbert R. Roberts Lecture in Public Policy. The lecture, titled “Ideologies, Identities, and the Election of Donald Trump” will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 1, in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center. The event is free and open to the public.

At noon on November 1, Professor Achen will present “Age, Not Social Class: Turnout Dropoff in the U.S. and Taiwan” to faculty and graduate students in the Department of Politics and Government. The talks are sponsored by the Department of Politics and Government, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S., the Harold K. Sage Foundation, and the Illinois State University Foundation Fund.

Achen is a professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University, where he holds the Roger Williams Straus Chair of Social Sciences. His primary research interests are public opinion, elections, and the realities of democratic politics, along with the statistical challenges that arise from those fields. He is the author, coauthor, or co-editor of six books, including Democracy for Realists (with Larry Bartels), published by Princeton University Press in 2016, and The Taiwan Voter (with T.Y. Wang), published by the University of Michigan Press in 2017. He has also published many articles.

Achen has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1995, and has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and Princeton’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He was the founding president of the Political Methodology Society, and he received the first career achievement award from The Political Methodology Section of The American Political Science Association in 2007. He has served on the top social science board at the National Science Foundation, and he was the chair of the national Council for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) from 2013-2015. He is also the recipient of an award from the University of Michigan for lifetime achievement in training graduate students and a student-initiated award from Princeton University for graduate student mentoring.